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Labour Rally hears of pandemic’s appalling impact to frontline workers’ mental health

HEALTH and social-care workers have been stressed during the coronavirus pandemic to the point of having suicidal thoughts, an online rally has heard.

Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan spoke at the Frontline Heroes rally during Labour’s virtual conference on Monday night.

The MP for Tooting is also an A&E doctor who, when Parliament is not sitting, works occasional shifts at St George’s Hospital. She said that they became more frequent during the pandemic.

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